Zoran Mamdani

And if there is a bad landlord whose entire business model is harassment, violation and displacement, then yes, we will take every single course of action we can.

And that includes at times to ensure that we're changing the ownership of that home to a nonprofit, to a community land trust, sometimes even yes to tenants themselves.

You know, wherever you live in this country, people come with an anxiety about the first of the month because they don't know if they're going to be able to afford their rent.

That is not just a New York City specific problem.

It is one that people feel coast to coast and everywhere in between.

And this is a vision for a city where we make it easier for people to actually afford to live here, make it easier for people to afford not only an apartment that they may rent, but even dreaming of becoming a homeowner.

And so much of what you're speaking about when it comes to federal policy, it's completely divorced from what any New Yorker is actually worried about.

What people are worried about is what we're actually acting on, which is how to make this city affordable and how to actually ensure that housing isn't some imaginary dream or fantasy that people have that they could one day afford, but it's a reality.

And the way we do that is by putting the full financial muscle of the city behind that kind of a vision.

We're incredibly excited to be doing that today.

I'll never apologize for sitting in the nose fleets.

I will tell you it was a great time to be there.

And frankly, as you said, it's an incredible time to be a New Yorker right now.

The energy across the city,

it's in line with the fact that we haven't been here since 1999 and that is something that means so much to so many who have suffered through so many seasons in the hopes of this moment finally living to actually be able to see it with their own eyes and it's incredible what this team has done we we cannot wait for the start of the finals and we're just going to hope that you know the spurs and okc just battle it out double ot you know take it to a series of game seven because

We want to make sure everything's going our way.

My message would be that this is not what government has to be.

This is not what the only vision there is for what it looks like to have a politics in this country that is so divorced from the needs and the wants of everyday people.

And what we are looking to show in New York City is an alternative to what has led so many

to become disenchanted with the political process.